Times	W 10:00-12:50
Location	460-126
Instructor	Christopher Potts
Office hours	W, 1–2:00 pm & by appointment

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	Plan	Primary reading
Sep 23	Course overview; Affective demonstratives	Lakoff 1974; Bowdle & Ward 1995; Wolter 2006; Liberman 2008
30	Exclamatives and exclamativity	Zanuttini & Portner 2003; Rett 2009; Potts & Schwarz 2008
Oct 7	Questions Under Discussion; Jess presenting	Roberts 1996; Groenendijk 1999
14	Frameworks for scalar implicatures: Gricean embedded implicatures; Corpus experiments on scalar implicatures; Sven presenting	Russell 2006; Geurts 2009; Chierchia, Fox & Spector 2008
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28	Markers of evidentiality and veridicity: Embedded appositives corpus and supporting materials; Halo composition; Factbank tags and Hubdub wagering; David and Marie presenting	Lasersohn 1999; Sauri & Pustejovsky 2009
Nov 4	Discourse particles and engaging the Questions Under Discussion: Davis on Japanese yo; Updates on previous ideas about our corpora; Olena and Lucas presenting	Davis 2009; Malamud 2006; Champollion 2009
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18	Maziar Toosarvandani on focus sensitivity and questions under discussion	Toosarvandani 2008, Toosarvandani to appear; Beaver & Clark 2008, §10
Thanksgiving recess
Dec 2	Jesse Harris on attitude verbs and perspective	Potts & Harris 2009a, 2009b

[Stanford F09 academic calendar]

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